I had to get it re-ampuated..SUPRISE!
you have to be willing to find the light though
You have to be willing to believe in yourself and to believe in your story and to believe that there's more that we're going through
And that what you're going through is going to bring you
Further into who you're supposed to be and your calling and find the good in it
Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. My name is Kristie Sita and if it's your first time here welcome!
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So in my past videos I have told you guys all about my amputation, all about June 30th again if you're new
5 years ago, I lost my left hand
And that now it's just me and my one guy but uh, you know, that's what happens in life, and I'm totally fine. So
today, I'm gonna share my extended story about my amputation because you guys got to know this so
June 30th 2014
I was in a boating accident
You guys can watch that full video here and you'll find out how I lost my left hand exactly
but today's video talks about what happened after that and
In case you probably saw from the title of this video. I had to get it re-amputated surprise!
That's what we're gonna be talking about today.
I thought all was good after my amputation. I started getting better. I was training again
I was working with my prosthetics guy and he was kind of working out
Trying to figure out what kind of prosthetics was going to be best for me, so I did get my first one
It was an all skin color kind of looking as normal as possible base
And then I had a couple of workout attachments attached to that
And so when I started using these attachments once my prosthetic was finally all done
So once I had all those pieces I started to use them and one of the biggest one was the clamp
So I'll show you what that looks like here
And so the clamp
Pretty much what happened is when the clamp would be like here and then I would have a weight on it
It would be pulling my arm essentially downwards like this. So this part of my arm was hitting my prosthetic
I was a lot of pain whenever I would do that and
It would really really really hurt felt. Like I was hitting a sharp-edged every single time and it was really uncomfortable in my prosthetic
I couldn't use my prosthetic for more than like ten minutes and maybe at max because it was just so much pain
Coming from just this one side on my right right there
And so I started talking to my prosthetic eye being like hey, what's going on here? How did we fix this?
Why is this happening blablabla and actually ended up sending me into some specialists and he was a hand specialist
Even though there was no hand
I guess he still kind of knows the realms what's going on in there
there should be a stump specialist
That should definitely be a thing
and so I started going to this hand specialist and he kind of
Started looking at my arm and feeling around to feel what bones were left and kind of how that felt everywhere
also speaking of which in these medical terms
Medical appointments before this video. I have partnered up with Abridge which is an incredible new medical app
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I wish I had this during my amputation time and
If I had these notes and if I had those
conversations to refer back to I would literally do anything and it would also make this video like 10 times better because I could tell
You exactly what he said, but I didn't use this App at that time
But I'm definitely going to be using it now go check it out use the download link that's in the description guys
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And this doctor made me take a scan on my arm and you found out that I have a shark-toothed bone
Right in that corner and I'll show you guys that x-ray what it looks like here
You can actually completely see it's like this like super
Sharp tooth there and that was digging right into my prosthetic every single time
And so we kind of started talking about what were some options to fix this
And so I could have just sucked it up and got used to it and got more padding in my prosthetic something that would have
Made it more comfortable but one of the other most long-term
best solution was to actually reopen up my scar and
Go back inside so they'd have to slice it open
Go back inside take out some bones cut it down whatever they needed to do there
We can talk about this over and we're like, this is definitely the best decision for me long-term because I'm only 16 years old
I'm definitely in our prosthetics over my life
I need to fix this so I decided to go into the surgery
which I scheduled exactly one year after my
Annotation and I was just about to move to the city to pursue dance. And so this was in..
toto. Alright, here he is guys
Little crazy bean he won't let me work ever when I'm in this chair
No you want
Todo
And so at this point it was a really good decision because my prosthetics really weren't working for me
I was actually stopped using my prosthetics all together and I was just
Sliding weight plates over my arm as if literally my arm was like a barbell. I'll show you this this photo here
It's kind of funny, but that's how I did a majority of my exercises at the beginning. They're waiting for my prosthetic
I mean waiting for the surgery and so in June I ended up going back in now
My surgery was scheduled so when I got there they were putting me completely under for this
So technically what was going to be happening is on this arm here. So this right
Where's the scar? Okay, you can you won't be able to see it through the screen
Oh, but they reopened my scar right here. And so they sliced it open
Toto stop. so they had to slice open my scar here and they went in they removed my bones in there
They sawed down some of my bones in there. I was completely out
I had no idea. The length isn't much different, but the inside is very
Just more long-term well
I don't really know how to explain that and I know it can seem like a pretty minor surgery
I guess you guys but is actually really really big and I was in recovery for about two months
I think again after
show you some of my pictures of my scars healing over it took again a couple of months couple of weeks or everything to
Be back to normal, but that was just something that wasn't mandatory
I could have gone on in pain, but I was just like I'm too young to
Have to live with this as well because I'm already living with like one less hand and then now pain in my one less hand
Just wasn't helping the situation. And so I said it to get it
Reworked re amputated and I was a little bit exaggeration
But it got you guys here so welcome to my channel subscribe and I'll leave a comment down below
Yeah, so that's my story. That was the last thing that happened to my stump. So
Hopefully nothing else else has to happen to it
I know some amputees do go through
Processes later in life when they do actually have to give it shortened or have to have other surgeries or whatever
I'm thinking I'm gonna be good, hopefully and
Yeah, that's my story time for today was just my second surgery that I had to have and yep
So if you want to hear more about my story, I'm gonna link my amputation story playlist up here
You can check that out. Watch on my story
well
My story times always a lot kind of going on and I definitely open up a lot of my videos about being vulnerable
About the things I've been through since myamputation and yeah, thanks for watching
I love you guys so much
And again, if you guys want to check out that abridge app, make sure you check the link down below
I'm gonna link it just at the top of the description here. It's a really great tool
I wish I had it well as going through this amputation time because honestly if I could record those
conversations and those memos and the things that I was going through it would be absolutely
Amazing and I would do anything to get those conversations back. So this is a great tool
Click the link down below go check it out and go try it out, and I hope you guys enjoy it. Love you guys
So much. Thanks for watching and I will see you in my next video. Love you